"The soul is often in the surface, and……" — Italo Calvino
"The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated."
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178 Quotes by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino has 178 quotes on this site.
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born.…
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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he…
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's…
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as…
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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same…
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More Depth Quotes
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The…
— Saint Augustine
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I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin,…
— Emilie Autumn
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
— Francis Bacon
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
— Ansel Adams
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No, I think the pitching today has more depth.
— Ernie Banks
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During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that…
— Ernie Banks
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in…
— Henry Adams
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
— Hans Bender
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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
— Georges Bernanos
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